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India win ICC Champions Trophy '13

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"Clearly from there, you would back yourself to win more times you'd lose in that situation but it shows how quickly games can change in T20 when you lose a couple of wickets,'' England captian Alastair Cook said.

India cemented its status as the king of one-day cricket with a nerve wrecking 5-run victory over England, in the end all of England's melancholic weather and the T20-like drama could not deny India its share of joy in gloomy Birmingham. (AFP/Paul Ellis)

With 16 balls remaining in a tense Champions Trophy final reduced to 20 overs per side because of persistent rain, England needed 20 runs as it chased down a revised target of 130 under floodlights at Edgbaston. (AFP/Andrew Yates)

As fireworks exploded into the sky, India's players danced jigs of delight in front of a near-90 percent Indian crowd who could easily have been in Mumbai or Delhi. In a central English city with a big Indian population, they had just added the Champions Trophy to its 2011 World Cup title. (AFP/Paul Ellis)

But they breezed in to the final with four straight wins and something of a swagger, and will have been viewed as the favourite when a flurry of showers shortened the match to a T20. (Reuters/Darren Staples)

However, India made just 129-7 after play finally started following the delay of nearly six hours, Virat Kohli making what proved to be a vital 43 and sharing a 47-run stand with Ravindra Jadeja. Ravi Bopara took 3-20 with his unassuming medium pace and England required less than 6.5 an over in its chase. (AP/Jon Super)

"Clearly from there, you would back yourself to win more times you'd lose in that situation but it shows how quickly games can change in T20 when you lose a couple of wickets,'' England captian Alastair Cook said. (Reuters/Darren Staples)